According to a post on boingboing London and Sydney already have public pianos on their streets. NYC is about to get there own. Chopsticks anyone? You can read the Village Voice article about the plan: click here
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I have this record on pink marbled 12″ vinyl. I remember my friend Joe Forbes bought it first and it took me a while to find my own copy. Eventually I found it at Rebel Rebel on Bleeker Street. Amazingly Rebel Rebel still exists and the owner still stands in behind the front counter exactly as he did 20+ years ago. Recently I went in there with my brother and saw him only now with gray hair. We spent countless weekends, hours and money buying hundreds of records from Rebel Rebel. Secession had a few good songs. I love the melancholy melodies in Touch. Melodies like this were in so much of 80s New Wave and for me the memories are melancholy too. Forget Virgin Galatic I want a proper time machine.
“Rebel Rebel is one of the old school NYC record shops— they’ve seemingly been around since the dawn of time. The walls are lined with posters and records from bands that haven’t seen a recording studio in years. Vinyl is everywhere, promo posters are sold out of a box for $2 a piece. It’s one of those places where a record buyer just feels at home.” – nycgoth.com
Bring back any memories?
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This entry was written by , posted on April 17, 2010 at 4:46 am, filed under live performance, music, video and tagged 1985, 80s, Bleeker Street, live performance, Manhattan, NYC, Rebel Rebel, records, Secession, Vinyl. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Energy Flash – Vinyl Life from Tape Theory on Vimeo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWQ-VwxUj2E
Here’s two videos that bring you back into the techno 90s. Above we have a pretty cool remake of Joey Beltram’s classic track Energy Flash (iTunes link) from Vinyl Life. Next we have some video from one of Peter Gatien’s clubs The Tunnel. I first went to the Tunnel around 1986 (I was 16). The dancing around 1:00 in will get you laughing.
I have a lot of stories from The Tunnel none of which I’m going to commit to “print”. Do you have any you care to share?
This entry was written by , posted on April 3, 2010 at 4:58 am, filed under music and tagged flashback, Joey Beltram, New York, NYC, techno, The Tunnel, Vinyl Life. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
A recording I made on the 6 Train going uptown in New York City. As you can hear the train sits there more than a minute before it heads from 23rd Street onward. I used an iPhone 3G and the FiRe application which uploads directly to SoundCloud.
Check out my growing set of Field Recordings: click here
This entry was written by , posted on August 20, 2009 at 4:53 am, filed under sounds and tagged field recording, FiRe, New York City, NYC, SoundCloud, train. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I had to go to the Social Security office in downtown Brooklyn. I took the 4 Train back into NYC. I feel at home when I hear, “Stand clear of the closing doors please.”.
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Julie and I needed to waste some time before we met friends for Julie’s birthday so we stopped by Guitar Center to visit my friend Dan who works there. You can hear some Reggae in the background. I think all music stores around the world sound incredible similar.
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My friend Leslie (on the right) needed to get a new piercing so we stopped by one of New York’s famous Tattoo parlors Adorned. I like the song that’s playing. Does anyone know what it is? Buzz buzz!
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Time for the celebration so we head to Supper. It’s a great Italian restaurant owned by Frank Prisinzano who became well known in NYC with one of his other spots simply called “Franks”. The food was great but as you can hear it was well loud. My poor musicians ears would have preferred a much quieter place but this is Manhattan on a Friday night.
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All the recordings were done on my iPhone using the Griffin iTalk application. You can download and use these recordings for whatever you like. Here’s a download link for the 16bit aiff files. Included is a bonus audio file recorded on the F-train:
http://www.wiretotheear.com/audio/NYC_Day.zip
NYC Day by Oliver Chesler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at www.wiretotheear.com.
Related post: Free audio recordings from the Berlin S-Bahn.
This entry was written by , posted on January 10, 2009 at 9:31 am, filed under iPhone, sounds and tagged Adorned, Griffin, iPhone, iTalk, New York, NYC, sounds, Supper. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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